- “Labour slammed over axing Free Speech Act” – Labour has been blasted over the Education Secretary’s decision to axe the Free Speech Act, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “Does Labour care about free speech on campus?” – Bridget Phillipson’s decision to shelve the Higher Education Act neatly sums up Labour’s attitude to higher education, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Labour has just betrayed a generation of young people” – Bridget Phillipson’s decision to cancel the commencement of the Higher Education Act brings shame upon the Labour Party, according to Claire Fox in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s war on free speech” – Censorship is about to return to the campus, says Andrew Doyle in UnHerd.
- “Labour frontbenchers have blocked thousands of new homes” – A Mail on Sunday investigation reveals that 14 members of Labour’s frontbench have together blocked the building of tens of thousands of homes in their constituencies.
- “How Labour plans to justify its tax hike” – The conceit that the Government has uncovered a black hole since taking office is just a wheeze to justify planned tax rises, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Kemi Badenoch to run for leader but Braverman may be a non-starter” – As surviving big-name Conservatives prepare to contest the leadership, infighting and blue-on-blue attacks have already begun, writes Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times.
- “Kemi Badenoch accuses rivals of tricks over ‘dirty dossier’” – Kemi Badenoch has claimed skullduggery is at play in the Conservative leadership contest after a “dirty dossier” of online comments she made nearly 20 years ago was circulated to newspapers, according to the Times.
- “Boris Johnson will not back any Tory leadership contender” – Boris Johnson is not planning to endorse any candidate in the Conservative leadership contest, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Chief online harms regulator quits in blow to big tech crackdown” – The U.K.’s chief online harms regulator has stepped down after barely more than a year, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Macron must be smouldering with humiliation’” – The final act of the opening ceremony was a triumph, but by then it was far too late, says David Jones in the Mail.
- “Tommy Robinson ‘could face jail’ over banned film screening” – Tommy Robinson could face jail over screening a banned film to thousands of his supporters at a rally in Trafalgar Square, says the Mail.
- “Mosques which hosted Islamist extremist preacher investigated by charity watchdog” – Four mosques are being assessed by the Charity Commission after hosting an Islamist extremist preacher, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hate cleric raises £3 million to create Islamic homeland on Scottish island” – A firebrand Muslim cleric who has been accused of spreading hate has raised more than £3 million to buy a small British island and turn it into his own Islamic state, reports the Mail.
- “Israel says 12 killed in rocket attack on Golan Heights football pitch” – Fears of all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel are rising after at least 12 people, including children, were killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon on the Golan Heights, according to the Times.
- “A crisis of democratic legitimacy” – In Law & Liberty, Theodore Dalrymple weighs in on the crisis of political legitimacy in Britain and France in light of the recent elections.
- “Esther McVey warns Labour will farm out future pandemic decisions to WHO” – Esther McVey says that Labour is planning to allow key decisions on how to respond to future pandemics to be “farmed out” to the WHO, according to the Telegraph.
- “Norwegian randomised trial finds masks associated with fewer sniffles but not fewer Covid cases” – A Norwegian study suggests that masks can reduce sniffles a bit (but only if you believe they do) without reducing Covid cases or a need for healthcare, writes Guy Gin on his Substack.
- “Richard Hirschman keeps finding terrifying clots” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. has shared alarming new images of the terrifying “white, fibrous clots” being discovered by embalmers and morticians across the globe.
- “Bird flu vaccines are fast approaching” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass reacts to news that the FDA can now fast-track bird flu vaccines without standard testing – and grant manufacturers liability waivers!
- “The week in numbers” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson return with a numerical rundown of the week’s top health stories.
- “FBI says unequivocally that Trump was hit by a bullet” – The FBI has released a statement declaring that President Trump was hit by a bullet, not shrapnel, at his rally in Pennsylvania, according to Modernity.
- “German publisher drops Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy over alliance with Trump” – German publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage has sparked outrage by deciding against a reprint of the sold-out German translation of Hillbilly Elegy, the 2016 autobiography of J.D. Vance after Trump picked him as running mate, says Brussels Signal.
- “The return of Right-wing cancel culture” – In Quillette, Josh Allan discusses the Right’s attempt to cancel people on the Left in the wake of the attempted Trump assassination.
- “Ed Miliband says Labour will honour pledge of £11.6 billion in climate aid” – Ed Miliband aims to re-establish the U.K. at the centre of international climate discussions, with Labour honouring a pledge of £11.6 billion in overseas aid for the climate crisis, according to the Guardian. Couldn’t Labour use that to help fill the £20 billion hole in Britain’s finances?
- “Heads should roll over the electric car fiasco” – Hundreds of billions of euros, dollars and pounds have been pumped into the EV industry by policymakers. It is time they were held accountable, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Clarkson reignites feud with BBC’s Packham in savage rant” – Jeremy Clarkson has waged a fresh war of words with Chris Packham following Packham’s moan about Taylor Swift’s carbon footprint, reports GB News.
- “Two ‘female boxers’ set to compete at Paris 2024 were previously disqualified from Women’s World Championship for having ‘XY chromosomes’” – Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in Olympic women’s boxing despite past questions surrounding their biological sex, says Reduxx.
- “Father’s letter begging top surgeon to cancel trans operation” – According to the Mail, a distraught father begged in vain for a leading trans surgeon not to remove his 20 year-old daughter’s breasts, telling him he was about to destroy her life. He didn’t get a reply and his daughter had a double mastectomy.
- “Woke NHS training scheme slammed by hospital whistleblower as employees ‘scared to speak out’” – Staff at a West Midlands NHS Trust have been left scared of speaking out after being told to “admit they have white privilege” as part of a training scheme, reports GB News.
- “The Left now has no opposition to its culture war against Britain” – Woke warriors and control freaks appear emboldened to shut down debate and trash our history, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “In a Barbie world” – Mattel has produced the ultimate symbol of their corporate captivity by people who should never be allowed inside a boardroom – a blind Barbie, writes Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Manchester Airport CCTV footage released” – The Manchester Airport CCTV footage has now been released, and it backs up the statement by Greater Manchester police – the Muslim suspects did attack the police first, and they responded appropriately.
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Roger Scruton described the USSR lasting for so long as the software of Bolshevism ossifying into hardware. Russians started each day with the sole determination to survive that day. To do so meant going along with things ‘to get by’, ‘reading the script to fit it’.
Peter Hitchens observed that when communism collapsed in Russia the waste bins in the streets were filled with party membership cards being burned. Whether the owners had read Marx and understood the theories or not, their allegiance was just performative; a necessity to survive.
Katie Lam read the transcripts from the court hearings to a largely empty House. The expressions on the faces of the other MPs was as if they had been passengers on the Titanic and had been informed that a cold sea awaited them, not the bright lights of Broadway and the expensive shops of Fifth Avenue.
Julie Bindel can write her articles on the phenomena of white girls used as prey animals until the sun turns red but they will always be the same. Just cut and paste, Julie, to save your time and ours.
If Reform UK or any other political organisation is used to represent a ‘white community’, both merely become part of the system of governance known as diversity. It would, along with the demonstrable fact that, as Ben Cobley says, everyone just knows the rules of how they must fit into being governed, proves that the software of diversity has ossified into hardware.
Those who are troubled by the way in which so many of the most vile crimes have clearly been swept under the carpet by so many for so long should contribute to They Knew. It is clear that the current government have every intention of doing all they can to keep the truth hidden, only legal action by the people for the victims can bring it to light.
How odd of God to choose liberal social science of the ungodly West to advance the fortunes of a religion of late antiquity.
Alternatively, if like Darwin one didn’t believe in a deity and substituted evolution for the historicism of the religion, this fusion of two things that would never have met in the natural world would be like the way in which the x Cupressocyparis leylandii was created.
Reversion – becoming a ‘revert’ – is the premise behind the assertion that Britain is a nation of immigrants.
A person’s ancestors may have been in the territory, in the polity, for centuries, but their descendent living today has just ‘forgotten’ that they are an immigrant. Believing that they are indigenous is ‘false consciousness’. They must just revert in order to become as one with all other immigrants.
Alternatively, that reversion might be called ‘reverse assimilation’. Unlike some colonial expats in the British Empire, they do not need to leave the shores of Britain to have ‘gone native’, as the Victorians called it.
The simplistic DEI mantra, in its current form, is a form of control. Akin to a divide and conquer strategy. It starts off as a mix of minority groups vs the white ethnicity, sexually straight, majority. However, as the minority groups rise in size, they start squabbling among themselves and massive discriminations across these groups become visible, as the tensions of the world replicate themselves within British society. One example of this is eg South Asians in Britain going on about racism and discrimination but anyone who has worked in such nations of origin already knows that those cultures are near the top of the global list for blatant racism, discrimination, exploitation, and injustices. Funnily enough, this is hardly ever discussed in Britain, which provides clues as to what is really going on here. The technical terms to describe this are opportunism and corruption. This phenomenon has become more apparent but, based on the current trajectory, it is going to become much worse, with a looming risk of societal disintegration.